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Title: LAW & BEARD
Series: The Dixie Warden Rejects
Author: Lani Lynn Vale
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Release Day: March 8th
About LAW & BEARD
Winnie thinks she has the perfect life.
Two beautiful, healthy children. A police officer husband. A job that she loves. Oh, and let’s not forget that she’s a nationally ranked marathon runner.
Fast forward six months, and her perfect life has imploded.
Winnie finds herself in a completely new world, and this new world is a brutal bitch.
In this new life of hers, her husband is gone. He realizes, at the worst possible time, that he’s no longer in love with her. He’s in love with her best friend. So he leaves, and doesn’t look back.
Her sixteen-year-old daughter is in trouble with the law, and she’s barely making ends meet thanks to losing the job that was keeping her and her tiny family afloat.
Then, the last thing that could make it all bearable, her running, is ripped out from under her, too. Thanks to a spinal stroke that leaves her unable to walk, let alone run, she’s having to relearn how to do the simplest of tasks-such as putting on her own pants.
She’s at the lowest of lows, and the last thing she wants is a sexy, bearded, motorcycle riding alpha to tell her how to live her life.
But Steel Cross never asks her what she wants.
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The moment Steel Cross sees Winnie’s daughter steal some shoes for her younger brother, he knows he’s in trouble.
He’s a sucker for misunderstood teens. After all, he was once one himself.
He knows he can’t just walk away, and the moment he sees that troubled teen’s mother, he doesn’t just know it, he feels it. Down to the very bottom of his soul.
With his share of hard knocks, he knows that he shouldn’t step in and make his move on a fellow police officer’s ex. There’s a code, after all, yet he just can’t seem to help himself.
He’s done being the good guy. Sometimes he just wants to be bad.
And Winnie makes him realize that being bad is still kind of good. As long as you’re with the right person.
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My Thoughts
ON THIS BOOK
I knew that Big Papa’s book was going to be epic, I mean with a road name like that there isn’t much less to expect. I wasn’t disappointed either. There were so many possible ways for this story to go an the direction it took left me wishing for one more chapter. Before I get to my review though I want to say that the quotes at the beginning f each chapter for this book were awesome. For those of you who are knew to Lani Lynn Vale, every book she writes there is a quote at the beginning of each chapter. Sometimes it is a quote that she found somewhere, other times it is a character’s inner thoughts or text messages. Below are a couple of my favorites from this book:
I’ve had my patience tested. I’m negative. -Steel’s secret thoughts
Pepsi and Coke can’t even be on the same menu together, and you want world peace? -Steel to a fellow officer
Steel Cross is a man who has loved and loss many times. For whatever reasons relationships and him just don’t work. He is old enough to know better than to even try. He has an ex-wife who is calling him, his son, and every other member of the Dixie Warden Rejects. She just doesn’t seem to understand that it’s over. On top of that he is the chief of police as well as the president his MC chapter. You would think that would keep him busy. He doesn’t have time to continuously bring home his neighbor’s teen daughter when she caught shopping lifting. When he discovers that she is also the daughter of one of his officers he knows he needs to find out a little more about the situation.
Winnie Holyfield doesn’t have time for her daughter’s rebellion. She has to figure out how to help her son with his learning and put food on the table since her ex is a huge douche who left her for…well I won’t say but I wanted to throat punch the pair of them. She is also learning to walk again and rebuild her strength after a spinal stroke. I had to look up what that was exactly and all I have to say is this woman is my hero (I do realize she’s not real but still.) In comes her sexy older neighbor and she is a goner.
I will give Steel credit he does attempt to stay away and the banter between these two could not have been better. While this book deals with heavy issues I love the light heartedness of this pair especially after Lani Lynn Vale’s last book being so heavy. It was nice to not have that the entire time. There was just so much to love about this book and there is scene where a flasher flashes one of the MC wife’s while she is driving that left me in tears I was laughing so hard. What she did is something I would totally do.
As far as villains go this book has more than one in a sense. There is one horrible, clearly defined bad guy but Matt, Winnie’s ex, is awful in my opinion. I kept waiting for Big Papa to punch him and I am sure that he wanted to. What I loved the most was the way that Big Papa treated Winnie’s kids. He took the time to listen to them and be there for them even when he and there mother were nothing to one another. In fact one of my favorite moments is when he is talking to Conleigh
She nodded her head and help up her pinky. “Pinky promise.”
I winked at her, took her pinky with mine, and shook it lightly before letting it go. “Be good. Don’t press any buttons.”
Winnie, of course, had some awesome moments too (like when she finally called Steel Big Papa.) One of her best were when she spoke to Sean about his father:
….last year y’all had the fundraiser for the sheriff’s department to get them. You should get them for your dad’s department.
Of course there is much more to what she said but I don’t want to give it all away for you. She didn’t hesitate to walk up to Sean and tell him what his father needed. My favorite secondary character was Cody. He was so cute with the way he recited facts. They would pop out at some of the most awkward moments.
Did you know that the average human body holds enough bones to make a human skeleton?
The one he recites about the honey bee is super funny and honestly something I didn’t even know. Once again Lani Lynn Vale has brought characters that feed our souls. Characters who, even when you meet them for the first time, it like coming home to old friends and catching up. Each story she weaves leaves us breathless beyond words and hungry for more.
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EXCERPT
PLEASE NOTE EXCERPT CONTAINS ADULT MATERIAL
[scroll-box]I’d never, not once, had the pleasure of giving a blow job.
Yet, I wanted to give one…to Steel.
Jesus Christ, did I want to give him one.
The man turned me on in ways that I had no clue I could be turned on by, yet here I was, wondering what it would feel like to give the man a blow job.
My curiosity got the better of me as I googled more tips-which they’d said they’d done as a comparison-and then I got lost in the World Wide Web.
My first stop had been Cosmopolitan!
My second had been some random Joe-Blow (literally, that was the name of the website) blog that gave the men’s top ten best blow job tips-according to men.
1. Maintain eye contact.
2. Tie your hair back, it shows your dedication.
3. Allow him to put his hand in your hair and control the movements.
That, I could do! In fact, the idea of Steel putting his hands in my hair and controlling all of the movement was downright arousing.
4. Use your hand as well as your mouth. Twist it side to side lightly as you pump and suck him.
Okay, pump, suck, and twist. Check!
5. Don’t use your teeth. Ever.
I shivered at the thought. That would suck, accidentally biting Steel’s dick. He’d probably never let me near him again and kick me straight the hell out of his bed. Though, I had to get in his bed first…
6. Drop down so he’s standing and you’re kneeling. There’s nothing more arousing than watching a woman get on her knees.
That thought made me shiver. Would Steel like me on my knees?
I sure the hell hoped so. I’d love to get on my knees for him.
Then again, I was doing good with my rehab…he still might have to help me back up.
I winced. Maybe I should just get on the bed between his splayed thighs…yes, that was how I’d do it.
7. Suck his balls.
Suck his balls? How the hell did I put those in my mouth? There wasn’t enough room!
8. Go slow. It’s not a race.
9. Swallow.
Well, that was self-explanatory. But I didn’t know if I could swallow. I’d try, but what if I gagged?
10. We like it when you gag.
Did they? What if I accidentally threw up? That would completely ruin the mood.
“What are you doing?”
I squeaked and jumped as Steel came out of the bathroom.[/scroll-box]
Meet the Author
LANI LYNN VALE
Lani Lynn Vale is a USA Today Bestselling Author of over thirty titles. She is married with three children, two dogs, two cats, a donkey, and a couple (a couple also meaning over twenty) chickens.
When she’s not writing, you can find her curled up in her favorite chair reading.
Lani is married with three children, and lives in the Great State of Texas.
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